British settlers travel to Masai country in Kenya. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
Pier 5, Havana (1959) Edward L. Cahn, Cameron Mitchell, Allison Hayes, Eduardo Noriega, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Yank comes to Havana in search of an old friend who disappeared during the Cuban Revolution, and discovers a group of Batista sympathizers plotting to overturn Castro. Read More »
Operation Petticoat (1959) Blake Edwards, Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O’Brien, Comedy, Romance, War
A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it. Read More »
Bride of the Gorilla (1951) Curt Siodmak, Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr., Raymond Burr, Horror
Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton). Read More »
Chicago Syndicate (1955) Fred F. Sears, Dennis O’Keefe, Abbe Lane, Paul Stewart, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. Read More »
Private Hell 36 (1954) Don Siegel, Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two detectives are investigating a robbery in which $300,000 was taken. Read More »
Carrie (1952) William Wyler, Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Drama, Romance
Carrie boards the train to Chicago with big ambitions. She gets a job stitching shoes and her sister’s husband takes almost all of her pay for room and board. Read More »
The Hour of 13 (1952) Harold French, Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Nicholas Revel (Peter Lawford) is a young man any dowager in London welcomes to her parties. Read More »
Pather Panchali (1955) Satyajit Ray, Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee, Drama
The story of a young boy, Apu, and life in his small Indian village. Read More »
Apur Sansar / The World of Apu (1959) Satyajit Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, Drama
Apu is a jobless former student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. Read More »
The Midnight Story (1957) Joseph Pevney, Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Beloved priest Father Thomasino is murdered in a San Francisco alley, and the police have few clues. Read More »
Stars and Stripes Forever (1952) Henry Koster, Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Biography, Comedy, Music
In the 1890s, Sgt. Major John Philip Sousa, leader of the Marine Corps Band, meets Private Willie Little Read More »
St. Louis Blues (1958) Allen Reisner, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Eartha Kitt, Cab Calloway, Biography, Drama, Music
Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. Read More »
High School Confidential! (1958) Jack Arnold, Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, John Drew Barrymore, Drama, Crime
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. Read More »
Viva Zapata! (1952) Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Biography, Drama, History
In 1909, Emiliano Zapata, a well-born but penniless Mexican Mestizo from the southern state of Morelos Read More »